Working Memory Capacity

By Nelson Cowan. 2005

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My Eyes Are Up Here: The Nature of the Objectifying Gaze Toward Women (2013, background): “Given that attention is a limited resource (Cowan 2005; Miller 1956), increased attention to women’s sexual body parts may come at the cost of attention to women’s faces.”
Investigating the episodic buffer (2010, background): “Substantial evidence for a limited capacity working memory system is provided by cowan (2005), although he argues for a limit of five, rather than Miller’s seven chunks.”
For Whom the Mind Wanders, and When (2007, background): “Although our central findings of WMC-related variation in real-world executive control are consistent with several attention-related WMC theories (Braver, Gray, & Burgess, 2007; Cowan, 2005; Lustig et al., 2001), they are not predicted by nonattentional views, for example, proposals that WMC and com”
Cognitive control and lexical access in younger and older bilinguals. (2008, background): “One attractive possibility is that working memory tasks engage common frontal lobe areas working in concert with distinct taskspecific posterior areas (Cowan, 2005).”
Adaptive training leads to sustained enhancement of poor working memory in children. (2009, background): “Other theorists conceive of WM as a limited capacity process of controlled attention that activates representations in long-term memory to become the current contents of WM (Cowan, 2005; Engle, Kane & Tuholski, 1999).”
Working Memory Training and the Effect on Mathematical Achievement in Children with Attention Deficits and Special Needs (2013, background): “It is suggested that in order to remember information, it must first be processed in WM (Cowan, 2005).”
Working Memory Underpins Cognitive Development, Learning, and Education (2013, neutral): “Cowan (1988, 1995, 1999, 2001, 2005) recoiled a bit from the modules and separate boxes, partly because they might well form an arbitrarily incomplete taxonomy of the systems in the brain.”
Time constraints and resource sharing in adults' working memory spans. (2004, background): “Moreover, the dissimilarity between processing and storage has led authors to situate this shared resource in higher order processes such as controlled attention (Engle et al., 1999; Kane, Bleckley, Conway, & Engle, 2001) or capacities for coordinating multiple-system functioning (Baddeley, 1990).”
Gray matter correlates of fluid, crystallized, and spatial intelligence: Testing the P-FIT model (2009, background): “systems andmay be a brain region involved in representation of integrated or abstract information (Cowan, 2005).”
An Interference Model of Visual Working Memory (2017, background): “First, capacity is assumed to reflect a limited number of place holders or slots in the working memory system, such that a discrete number of chunks—independent representational units—can be maintained in working memory (WM) at any time (Cowan, 2005; Zhang & Luck, 2008).”
Working Memory and Attention – A Conceptual Analysis and Review (2019, neutral): “Many theorists discussing the relation between working memory and attention characterize attention as a limited resource for maintaining representations in an “active”, available state (Cowan, 2005).”
Time and cognitive load in working memory. (2007, methodology): “The straightforward conclusion for these phenomena is that visuo-spatial processing disrupt verbal memory As Morey and Cowan (2005) noted, the possibility of interferences between similar, verbal stimuli could not be discarded in accounting for the trade-off observed by Barrouillet et al. (2004)…”
Individual differences in working memory and processing speed predict anticipatory spoken language processing in the visual world (2016, neutral): “According to some working memory models, for example, working memory contains or consists of activated long-term memory representations (e.g. Cowan, 2005; Ericsson & Kintsch, 1995; MacDonald & Christiansen, 2002).”